Marc Wortman
Journalist and independent scholar
Marc Wortman is a journalist and independent scholar who writes history. He wrote The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived, about Tom Watson Jr. and IBM.
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About Marc Wortman
Marc Wortman is a freelance journalist and independent scholar. He has written on history, science and architecture, and his work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian and Time. His book The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived tells the story of Tom Watson Jr. and the part IBM played in creating the digital age. He has also written Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power, 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, The Bonfire and The Millionaires' Unit, which became the basis for a documentary. Wortman attended Brown University and earned a doctorate at Princeton. He has taught at Princeton and Quinnipiac, among other colleges.